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Language socialization researchers investigate language use and learning in informal and formal or instructed digital contexts, demonstrating the importance of understanding digitally mediated creative expression and language use as tools for identity development and management. They employ a variety of approaches that draw from applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, communication studies, and educational and linguistic anthropology and employ commensurate longitudinal, ethnographic, and cross-cultural methodologies. Building on early studies illuminating the nature of socialization online through email, discussion boards, and websites, more recent work has examined language socialization in newer digital contexts and interest communities such as fan fiction, online multiplayer gaming, and social networking. To account for emergent and hybrid linguistic activity in new online transnational contexts, some researchers have found commensurate frameworks in recent research on the sociolinguistics of globalization.
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Reinhardt, J., Thorne, S.L. (2017). Language Socialization in Digital Contexts. In: Duff, P., May, S. (eds) Language Socialization. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02327-4_27-1
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